Leon Adato

A picture of two clay figures of golems, one is larger than the other. The text above them reads “your brain thinks these golems are different sizes” The text below them reads “however, this is true because they are different sizes” and then below that, in a slightly larger font, is the text “they’re both coming to get you”

NEW POST! Cloud Monitoring's Blind Spot: The User Perspective
(This post originally appeared on Catchpoint.com) The evolution of internet-centric application delivery has worsened IT’s visibility gaps into what impacts an end user’s experience.
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This is real: President Trump is standing on the roof of the White House briefing room right now and no one knows why

So true!!

If you're a chef your job won't be taken by a microwave, but it will be by a chef using a microwave!!

In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen As a restaurant owner – I’m astounded at the rate of progress since microwaves were released a few short years ago. Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s m…

OMG You have to read this! (no, it's not about microwaves)

HT @leonadato.com

Leon wearing a vibrant, day-glo color, tiger-pattern suit (tie, jacket, and pants) that looks like something out of a Lisa Frank picture.

"What's New at @catchpointsystems.bsky.social " episode 2 teaser:

h/t Michael Davidson

YES! this is what all AI tech brah's sound like right now. Shut the fork up already with your "spicy autocorrect is going to replace programmers" bullshirt nonsense.

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He literally cheated an election i'm losing my mind. And the patriot act resulted in the largest loss of rights in US history.

Begging journalists and media to publish more explainers like this. They’re not sexy or prestigious but audiences need, like, and, yes, even share them bc they’re a window into an otherwise opaque and confusing world that’s easy to caricature as the deep state

The (seemingly false) NYT report of Harvard caving probably helped the Trump Administration bully other universities into making deals. So this stuff matters.

say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

The economy is on the precipice of recession. That’s the clear takeaway from last week’s economic data dump. Consumer spending has flatlined, construction and manufacturing are contracting, and employment is set to fall. And with inflation on the rise, it is tough for the Fed to come to the rescue. Unemployment remains low, but that’s only because labor force growth has gone sideways. The foreign-born workforce is shrinking, and labor force participation is declining. Telling is the economy-wide hiring freeze, particularly for recent graduates, and the decline in hours worked. It’s no mystery why the economy is struggling; blame increasing U.S. tariffs and highly restrictive immigration policy. The tariffs are cutting increasingly deeply into the profits of American companies and the purchasing power of American households. Fewer immigrant workers means a smaller economy. Any notion that the economic data misrepresents the reality of how the economy is performing is way off base. There are revisions to the data, even big revisions, but they universally say the economy is doing worse. That’s because it is. BTW, the DOGE cuts are a key factor in the revisions—not because BLS has cut staff, although that can’t help, but because the government often reports payrolls to BLS late. It didn’t matter when government employment was stable, but now that it’s declining, the cuts are picked up in the revisions.

Trump is panicking because the economic numbers are giving a recession vibe.
From the Chief Economist at Moody's.

The Invention of “Sesame Street” Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.

“Sesame Street” and its sequel, “The Electric Company,” were, “with lapses, the most intelligent and important programs in television,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

Crockett: Every time there's a cleanup on aisle 9, they seem to come and find a Democrat to do it and then they get amnesia

I think really the story of the past ten years was people taking for granted 21st century liberalism was locked in and therefore you could just kinda be fashy for a laugh only to realize a moment too late Skinhead Steve wasn’t joking after all.

Would attend the SHIT out of this. I hope we cross paths soon.

This is basically what I do for most talks. Technical title, few buzzwords, leaning into the techbro vibe, all of that

Then I show up in a ballgown and talk about social skills and leading people with empathy and humanity

Because yes, that’s also technical skills, and tech can be feminine too 💅

Kid-size, cash register, etc and then decorate the windows like a food truck.

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

In the Soviet Union, disagreeing with the tenets of Marxist-Leninism was considered proof of insanity and producing numbers that disagreed with Politburo claims could get you sent to the gulag. As a result, they had an economy built entirely on lies that occasionally starved people to death.

How journalists should respond to the "Authoritarian Playbook" Good afternoon from sweltering Washington, where I'm hunkering down in air conditioning and parsing what the Supreme Court's decision on Murthy vs Missouri means for how social media companies and U.S...

True: He is a corrupt demagogue who has defined, refined, & applied the modern authoritarian playbook to deconstructing American democracy.

Like Axios, The Times is late to applying this frame, but it is a watershed that it’s finally happened.
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“AI is coming to take our jobs” no it isn’t. It’s a CEO named Gary taking some shitty advice from a VC who has never had a real job in their life, trying to maximise their quarterly earnings by firing as many people as they can get away with to make number go up, and it isn’t sustainable

How to Make Almost Anything Course at MIT (TA Perspective)
L: https://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.19/CBA/people/dsculley/index.html
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44775830
posted on 2025.08.03 at 07:28:29 (c=0, p=3)

i'm crying laughing. she's literally never seen the word before.

As someone who heard A LOT about Idi Amin in the news as a kid (including the song!), "The White Idi Amin" not only hits hard, it hits true.

I'm submitting my registration of meme theft with @jamellebouie.net

Don't miss the sequel, MechaRashi vs. the TosafBot

*a jaunty electronic tune plays from the office break room*
Me: "Is that the rat trap?"

@elsabirch.bsky.social: "It's the electric kettle but why... why would the rat trap *sing* when it catches a rat?"

Me: "Because it takes PRIDE in its WORK, Elsa."

how is klingon twitter different

NEW POST! Job listings for week ending 8/1
Job postings that came across my desk, slack, email, discord, etc this week.
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